Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin, Blessed Augustine, and the Doctor of Grace, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius, located in Numidia. He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are The City of God and Confessions...
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people victory hippo
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
catholic
Beware of bad Catholics.
wish ask-me asks
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not ....
broken doubtful regard
When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
weight
My weight is my love.
angel sacrifice helping
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
spiritual brother men
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
scary church salvation
There is no salvation outside the church.
character order law
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
fall men poison
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
children sun world
A marriage without children is the world without the sun.
adversity grace soul
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
mother men sun
It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?
prayer humility baptism
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized